It’s All in the Blend?

The SOLSTICE Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning at Edge Hill University is pleased to announce its 4th international conference:

It’s All in the Blend?
Innovation, Research and Development: enhancing learning with technologies Thursday 4th June 2009, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK

The SOLSTICE conference attracts colleagues from the higher education sector worldwide wishing to share knowledge, expertise and skills relating relationships between research, innovation, and development to the enhancement of student learning through the intelligent development of technologies.

The 2009 conference will actively explore the ‘blend’ between innovation, research and development of supported and blended online learning and we welcome papers, presentations, demonstrations and posters on the following themes:

• Researching elearning notions of impact and effect using technologies
• Theoretical bases of elearning and learning environments
• Technologies and learning environments - physical and virtual spaces
• Impacting on students’ learning - cause and effect
• ‘In development’

Keynote speakers
We are delighted to announce that Dr Rhona Sharpe, Principal Lecturer in Educational Development, Oxford Brookes University and Professor Tara Brabazon, Professor of Media at the University of Brighton will both deliver keynote speeches at our conference.

Call for proposals
The deadline for receipt of abstracts (up to 300 words) is 5pm on Monday 2nd February 2009. Full details of the themes and call for proposals are available from the conference website:
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/conference2009.

The conference is open to academic and academic related colleagues in the further and higher education sector, both national and international.

Registration and fees
To book your place please complete the online registration form available on the conference website (http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/conference2009).

You can also follow conference updates on Twitter @solstice2009 (http://twitter.com/Solstice2009).

This conference is part of a three-day series, preceded by the 2nd conference of the Widening Participation Research Centre
(http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/wpresearch/index.htm) on Tuesday the 2nd June and the 8th CLTR Conference
(http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/cltr/Events/Conference.htm) on Wednesday 3rd June 2009.